My first Land Rover a LWB Safari that I built out of three. I spent many a year in LR`s both diesel and petrol, V8 and fours, Series 2A onward. Once I started building renovation about this place and bought an old Datsun one ton pick up-truck.. That was the end of LR`s for me and the start of numerous 1 ton pick-up`s, both Jap and Ford for over circa 40 years. Sorry to say the pick-ups were far cheaper to run on fuel, parts and in truth suited the tasks I needed them to perform better than a LR.
I am all for having an old diesel or carb thing equipped with minimal electronics about the place. I guess I have that in my +8 (-: However if this E10 stuff becomes the norm I suspect the old thing may not like it too much..!
As for LR, it seems my good lady is still flying the flag with her choice of 4x4...However I am less than impressed when a wheel rotation sensor fails causing the ABS to go into failure mode.. which is no big deal, but subsequently it seems the programming is such that the next logical step is to lock up the FWD system if and when the brakes are applied, making all sorts of grinding noises, enough for the mechanically sympathetic to abandon forward progress... Only £480 to interrogate the ECU and fit a new sensor..! And advice that the two year old discs should be replaced after no more than a couple of thousand miles of commuting I think the quote to replace front and rear discs and pads was circa £1300.. I think I need to blow the cobwebs off my tools..Given the cost of O.E. parts from outside the dealer network..?
